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Establecimiento bioquímico y caracterización del cofactor Flavin-N5-óxido de EncM

Robin Teufel¹, Frederick Stull², Michael J Meehan³

¹†Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|June 13, 2015

Resumen

Los investigadores identificaron una nueva especie de flavin-N5-óxido crucial para la biosíntesis de los antibióticos enterocina. Este intermediario superoxidado de la flavina, observado en la enzima EncM, es clave para comprender la catálisis de las flavoproteínas.

Área de la Ciencia:

La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
Enzimología Enzimología.
Biosíntesis de Productos Naturales de Productos Naturales

Sus antecedentes:

Las monooxigenasas dependientes de la flavina suelen utilizar un intermediario C4a-peroxiflavina para la oxigenación.
Un estudio reciente propuso un nuevo flavin-N5-óxido (Fl(N5[O])) como una especie clave en la biosíntesis de enterocina por la enzima EncM.
Esta flavina superoxidada propuesta se une covalentemente a EncM y se reduce a FADH2 (Fl(rojo)) durante la catálisis.

Objetivo del estudio:

Proporcionar evidencia directa de la existencia de las especies propuestas de flavin-N5-óxido.
Para aclarar el mecanismo de formación de flavin-N5-óxido y su papel en el ciclo catalítico EncM.
Investigar las propiedades bioquímicas y espectroscópicas del óxido flavin-N5-y EncM.

Principales métodos:

Estudios de etiquetado de isótopos.
Digestión proteolítica de la enzima EncM.
Espectrometría de masas en tándem de alta resolución.
Análisis bioquímicos y espectroscópicos.

Principales resultados:

La evidencia directa de las especies de flavin-N5-óxido se obtuvo mediante espectrometría de masas.
Se propuso un mecanismo para la formación de flavin-N5-óxido que implica la transferencia de hidrógeno de FADH2 a oxígeno molecular.
Este mecanismo implica el acoplamiento radical del superóxido protonado y la aniónica flavina semiquinona en N5, seguido de la eliminación de agua.
Se revelaron las características clave del óxido de flavina-N5 y el mecanismo catalítico EncM.

Conclusiones:

El flavin-N5-óxido es un intermediario clave en la biosíntesis del antibiótico bacteriano policetídeo enterocina.
El estudio proporciona evidencia directa y conocimientos mecanicistas sobre esta especie sin precedentes de cofactor de flavina.
Los óxidos de flavin-N5 pueden representar una clase más amplia de intermediarios o especies activas en otras reacciones catalizadas por flavoproteínas.

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